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Monday, July 29, 2013

Well, London City its been a while, that's the last time I use Lindo-Print to get my photo's developed....it took 3 weeks.... on the plus side I have 3 weeks of pure unadulterated excitement and fun to report on ....

So, the story so far...

We are celebrating London City's 4th Birthday, wow 4 years on I can't believe it, it's zoomed by, and London City goes from strength to strength, the forefront of innovation, fun, new ideas, and the best entertainment in Second Life.

Every Saturday Regents Park plays host to a LIVE open air concert, free and open for everyone.
Over the last 3 weeks we have seen the likes of ( are you sitting down for this ? )
1. Tom Jones, 2.The Beach Boys,3.The Drifters...can you believe it ... I know !!!!

Tom Jones on stage to roars and screams form the crowd, we love a bit of Tom, its been well over a year since he's been to London with his busy schedule.

He arrived on stage... with That Hair, That Hip Shaking Wiggle, That Voice... no wonder all the ladies swooned.

Tom Jones, ( no relation ) born Thomas John Woodward in June 1940 in Wales.
Tom, has sung from many genre over the years from Pop, Rock, R&B,Show Tunes, Country, Dance, Soul and Gospel, and has sold over 100 million records.

Next up The Beach Boys, American Rock band from California, in 1961, they are best known for reflecting Southern California youth culture of surfing, cars and romance in their lyrics.

The first time to London City, they went down a storm, helping us celebrate our 3rd birthday.

Relax...That's not a Beach Boy on fire, it's one of our birthday candles. I wish I'd known before calling 999.

Last but by no means least, The Drifters, second time in London City.
They are an American Do-wop and R&B vocal group, formed in 1953.

Playing some of their awesome hits we all know and love, think you don't know any of their tunes guess again... we all sang along to "Save The Last Dance For Me", "There Goes MY Baby" "Under The Board Walk" and many more.

More fun in London City during the heatwave, we all cooled down in the pool right in the hub how refreshing.

That's all from me this week, I'll see you next time for more fun and frolics in London City.... number 1 destination in Second Life.

Saturday, July 27, 2013

London City in Second Life presents the World Premiere of Dead Road, a Second Life Film.

Dead Road is the story of a terminally ill woman (Zarah Minx) and her doctor (Felix Bunkenstein) desperately seeking salvation in a crumbling, apocalyptic world. Pursued by a deadly assassin and hunted by a ruthless vampire clan, Zarah and Felix fight their way to a better place in a sexy, action packed roller coaster of gratuitous violence and intrigue, a tribute to the grindhouse/exploitation genre and its revivalist film makers.Written and Directed by Bunky Snowbear (Dr. Noob, Griefbusters) and starring London City’s Evie Falconer, Dana Luckless and a cast of familiar locals, Dead Road will change your perceptions of Second Life machinima.London City in Second Life will be hosting the World Premiere of Dead Road at Comptons Pub on Sunday 28th July 2013 at 7amSLT (3pm UK time).Everyone is welcome, so frock up and come along to be among the first people on the planet to see it! (refreshments available at the bar) Comptons Pub is located here: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/London%20City/42/182/24
To view Cinema Minima’s previous Second Life films, please visit the Vimeo page at http://vimeo.com/user7244579

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Well, Saturday night at eight o'clock, I know where I'm gonna go... To the Drifters Beach Concert in London City!

Spanning fifty years (and counting) and with sixty Drifters
members so far, this is America's longest running band.

Their songs
include, Saturday Night at The Movies, More Than a Number in my Little Red
Book, On Broadway, Kissin' In The Back Row of The Movies, There Goes My Baby,
This Magic Moment and many many more.

The Party starts at 12pm SL
(8pm UK) and The Drifters are on stage at 1pm SL.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

So, is this the biggest over-hyped sensation since the Millennium Dome, The Emperors New Clothing and Mesh Graphics... or one of the modern miracles that offers the solution to those horrid Ruth's and that sodding gesture about seeing grey people?

We've only just got it, so anything is possible.. but behind the scenes we did a lot of testing and we're hoping that the literally thousands of you who visit us every day get to see each other a lot quicker, even if everything else takes its usual time.

Nikolish viewed on Singularity SSB

Apparently if you clear your cache, logon and go make a coffee it is truly spectacular.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Going from Phoenix to Singularity
SSB?For information about customising FIRESTORM see the Resources Tab above, 3rd story down

So you have made the leap from Phoenix to Firestorm? Well done you!

If you haven't.... or you cannot get to grips with Firestorm despite my wonderful article in "Resources", then Singularity with SSB may well be the cure for what ails you!

Firestorm is very much like Phoenix when set to the
Phoenix mode. You can customise it even more closely with my settings,
but it does still lack some functionality that was enjoyed in Phoenix.
Little
things, but annoying things.. Keyword alerts not working in background, UUID not
supported in Estate and Local access listing, bad highlighting in edit, strange
editor for scripting, Radar needing to be clicked 3 times to make it
alphabetical, inability to view/moderate group chat by who has spoken most
recently, non proportional tab widths in chat etc etc.

Singularity is the
closest viewer you will get to the old Phoenix viewer. It is virtually
identical and the only differences I have spotted are on the radar button,
otherwise it seems the same, which is hardly surprising considering both viewers
were forked from Snowglobe.

However, they both share the same bug, which
is the inability to point their settings away from:C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\secondlife
and try as I might I cannot get phoenix to point to "phoenix" and singularity to
point to "singularity" in the directory above, it seems that "secondlife" is
hardcoded into the settings.

It doesn't matter too much,
unless you use both viewers! If you use both viewers, expect
some strange results as one will corrupt the "per user" settings on the other,
or you will find Singularity does all the logon stuff and the very instant you
think you have arrived in-world, it quits to desktop. Phoenix on the other
hand will dump many of the tweaks you have added, like keyword alerts,
auto-responses etc.

My advice is to use either Phoenix or Singularity and
NEVER both on your system at a time.

If you are moving from Phoenix to
Singularity (or want to give Singularity a thorough road test) here's
how:

Remove the desktop shortcut.. You don't want to undo all your hard
work by accidently launching Phoenix!

Since Phoenix is now defunct as it
will not support SSB and Singularity supports Server Side Baking, my work around
was to rename the directory to C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\secondlife-phoenix
to mothball my old settings and chats (which I can copy across later). Now on
starting Singularity, I can be assured that only Singularity is using the
directory C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\secondlife thus preserving my
settings from corrupting.

If for any reason I find that Singularity is
unworkable for me and I want to return to Phoenix from where I left off, I can
safely delete C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\secondlife and rename
C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\secondlife-phoenix back to
C:\users\yourname\appdata\roaming\secondlife

By following
the steps in the Firestorm guide (See the Resources Tab at the top of this page), you can also copy across the old Phoenix
fonts and make the viewer absolutely identical!

I am told that you can
copy the language files from Phoenix too if English is not your native
language.

Happy fiddling!

PS: If rezzing is slow and grey forever, go to the Network tab and uncheck "Use HTTP for Textures"

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

~WoooHooo The weather today in London City is Scorchio!!!! and the forecast for the rest of the week Scorchio!!!!
You know what that means don't you ? ...dare I even say .....

..... I'll whisper so as not to jinx it .....
It's summer time ...yayayayay at last..... and never one to pass up on a party, I joined everyone in Regents park on Saturday for one of the famous LIVE outdoor concerts.

Regents Park had been transformed into an Oasis right in the centre of town,

Sun , Sea and Sand what more could you ask for.... Live music you say?, well we had the covered too.

You wouldn't believe who joined us to sing a vast array of his top hits .... Born in 1947, David Robert Jones ( no relation ) he's an English musician, actor, songwriter and producer, he has been a major figure in popular music for the last four decades. Well known for his distinctive voice and intellectual depth...any ideas yet?
What if I said "Starman"? "Lets Dance"? come on you must know.... that's right!!!.....

We had the one, the only David Bowie in concert....how awesome .....Born in Brixton, Bowie played to a full Park, the roar of the crowd welcoming him.

To say people were enjoying themselves is a huge understatement.

Bikini clad bodies, wooo everyone looked hot in more ways than one....people could cool down with a fruity cocktail at the bar ( that's where I was most of the night ... hic ... let me just say Billy makes the best prim Margaritas, EVER)

No that's not foxy bingo

A quick paddle in the pool, whilst singing to "All The Young Dudes" where else could you do that for FREE too....See , this is why London City is the top destination in Second Life, diversity,
excitement, fun, unique,everyone LOVES London City and it shows....record amount of visitors.

We have so many summer related events coming up, don't miss out, make sure you join us .

well that's all from me this week, I'll see you next time for more fun and frolics in the number 1 destination... London City....accept no imitations...

Tuesday, July 02, 2013

Didn't we have an awesome weekend together....Celebrating Pride Weekend, back to back entertainment all day, an unbeatable line-up in the top destination in SL.

Launch Party

6am Judy Garland Concert

7am XXL

9am Cher Concert

10am Donna Summer Party

11am Classic Anthems

12pm One Night in Heaven with Pans People

3pm Juiced in the Pride Park

5am Fireworks

Hourly cash prizes for the sexiest studs on the dance poles

Plus Win 2000L for Best in Pride Theme

Can you believe it all in one full fun packed day.

In Real life, thousands of people joined the Pride parade through central London.

The parade began in Baker Street, passing through Oxford Street, Piccadilly and Trafalgar Square before ending at Whitehall.

Organisers said this could be the biggest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender event in London over the last decade.

The theme this year is Love and Marriage to coincide with MPs considering the Equal Marriage Bill.

In SL, people arrived in regents park early, ready to party and win huge amounts of money, the whole London City sim was buzzing.

Gay pride or LGBT pride is the positive stance against discrimination and violence toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people to promote their self-affirmation, dignity, equality rights, increase their visibility as a social group, build community, and celebrate sexual diversity and gender variance.

First up .... Judy Garland, born Francis Ethel Gumm, June 10th 1922, her career spanned 40 years, she was as Fred Astaire put it "The Greatest Entertainer That Ever Lived".

Most identified for her role in Wizard Of Oz, Judy sang her heart out, fabulous show tunes and a vibrancy on she could bring to the days entertainment.

XXL, fun up beat tunes and best dancer on the poles, what a hoot, medics on stand by for sore chaffing, people had a whale of a time sliding up and down the poles for all they were worth.

People joined us from all over, ready to party, and have a great time .

Next up Cher , born Cherilyn Sarkisian, May 20, 1946) is an American singer and actress. Cher took to the stage, "nearly" wearing her signature one piece ... the crowd roared as she sang a medley of her hits that spanned nearly half a century and she's still going strong.

Later Pans people took to the stage and displayed their own unique version or expressive dance.

Pan's People was a British TV dance troupe, most usually associated with the BBC TV music chart show Top of the Pops.

In an era before pop videos, they danced to songs whose original artists were not available to perform them live.

They were not the first dance troupe to appear regularly on Top of the Pops; they were preceded by The Go-Jos in the programme's first four years, before Pan's People replaced them in May 1968. They did not start off with weekly appearances, but they had become an almost-weekly feature of the programme by early 1970.

Then juiced brought the evening to a close with fireworks and an array of upbeat trance music, with yet more Linden cash to win.

All in all we had a fantastic time, meeting a whole array of new people, and our regulars for this fantastic day.
London City is the top destination in SL, we strive to bring you bigger and better each week and we deliver..... make London City your number 1 venue.... we look forward to seeing you again.

That's all from me this week, I'll see you for more fun and frolics in the awesome London City .... accept no imitations xxxx

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London City is the most popular destination on the Second Life virtual world grid. Closely following real life events in London as they happen, our 3D recreation, with themed events, competitions, concerts and community participation is a great way to meet friends across the internet and form lasting friendships